• Title of article

    A Highly Parallel and Scalable Motion Estimation Algorithm with GPU for HEVC

  • Author/Authors

    Xue, Yun-gang School of Computer - National University of Defense Technology , China , Su,Hua-you School of Computer - National University of Defense Technology , China , Ren,Ju School of Computer - National University of Defense Technology , China , Wen, Mei School of Computer - National University of Defense Technology , China , Zhang,Chun-yuan School of Computer - National University of Defense Technology , China , Xiao, Li-quan School of Computer - National University of Defense Technology , China

  • Pages
    16
  • From page
    1
  • To page
    16
  • Abstract
    We propose a highly parallel and scalable motion estimation algorithm, named multilevel resolution motion estimation (MLRME for short), by combining the advantages of local full search and downsampling. By subsampling a video frame, a large amount of computation is saved. While using the local full-search method, it can exploit massive parallelism and make full use of the powerful modern many-core accelerators, such as GPU and Intel Xeon Phi. We implanted the proposed MLRME into HM12.0, and the experimental results showed that the encoding quality of the MLRME method is close to that of the fast motion estimation in HEVC, which declines by less than 1.5%. We also implemented the MLRME with CUDA, which obtained 30–60x speed-up compared to the serial algorithm on single CPU. Specifically, the parallel implementation of MLRME on a GTX 460 GPU can meet the real-time coding requirement with about 25 fps for the video format, while, for , the performance is more than 100 fps.
  • Keywords
    Algorithm , Parallel , Scalable Motion , GPU , HEVC
  • Journal title
    Scientific Programming
  • Serial Year
    2017
  • Record number

    2607835